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Organizers: Stefanie Dipper (Bochum) and Heike Zinsmeister (Konstanz) Workshop organized as part of the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) to be held in Goettingen, Germany, February 23- 25, 2011

Final Call For Papers

In recent years, focus of corpus-based research has moved from morpho- syntactic phenomena to semantics (e.g. word sense disambiguation, frame semantics,predicate-argument structure, temporal structure) and ''beyond'', i.e., to pragmatic and discourse-related phenomena (e.g. anaphora, information structure). In the latter field, it is often especially hard to transfer results from theoretical linguistics that are based on toy examples to naturally-occurring texts. Even provided explicit annotation guidelines, it is often difficult to annotate texts reliably.

We would like to bring together theoretical linguists who use texts and corpora for pragmatic or discourse-related research questions, and corpus linguists as well as computational linguists who create and annotate relevant corpus resources, or exploit them. The goal of the workshop is to enhance exchange between researchers of both fields, and thus to gain insight in the -- possibly common -- properties and peculiarities of the ''beyond'' phenomena.

Questions that we would like to address include: - Which results from theoretical linguistics (e.g. frameworks, generalizations) have been tried to apply to (running) texts? What were the outcomes? Did these outcomes affect the theory? - In annotating texts, which methods are applied? For instance, are there linguistic tests that guide the annotators? Which tools are used? - Which generalizations can be derived from existing resources? Which applications make use of existing resources?